13 Bible Verses about Respect For People

For God said, Honor your father and mother; and he that reviles father or mother, let him surely die.

for Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and, He that reviles father or mother, let him surely die.

You know the commandments; You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not testify falsely, You shall not defraud, Honor your father and mother.

Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in estimation,

And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

In like manner let the husbands [do], living together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less strength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

But do you also, individually, each one so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the husband.

And let those who have believing masters not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather serve, because they are believers and beloved, who partake of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

And afterwards he sent them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

Having yet one beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, They will reverence my son.

And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; doubtless, when they see him they will respect him.

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?